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Doctoral Degree: Acupuncture/TCM (USA)♦️BC registered Traditional Chinese Medicine Practioner & Acupuncturist ♦️ Manual Osteopathy♦️Co-host of Health-FULL Podcast 🎙️ TCM Professor 📚👩‍🏫

01/21/2026

📣 Rebalance: Community Update

We’re pleased to share an important update with our Nelson community.

Beginning February 6, we will be launching Rebalance Botanicals, a branch of Rebalance Nelson’s Wellness Collective.

We will be supporting patients with continued access to Chinese herbal formulas following the closure of public dispensary access at Kootenay Columbia College.

While this marks the end of a long-standing service in our community, it also opens the door to a more accessible and patient-friendly model of care.

What this means for you:

• Central downtown location
• Flexible pickup hours Monday to Friday
• Common powdered Chinese herbal formulas, singles and liniments available
• Easy coordination with your healthcare provider
• Convenient access on Baker Street, alongside Wings Grocery: located one door away

Our goal is simple: to make getting your herbal medicine easier, more efficient, and better aligned with modern patient schedules.

We are committed to maintaining continuity of care and ensuring a smooth transition for patients who have relied on herbal dispensary services for many years.

Additional details regarding prescriptions, pickup procedures, and rollout timing will be shared shortly.

Thank you for your trust as we step into this next chapter serving Nelson’s wellness community. We are thrilled to keep the tradition of Chinese Medicine thriving in our community 🥳

01/18/2026

Even though I finished in November, it still feels incredible seeing my doctoral degree on paper ✨
One of many big adventures in Chinese Medicine: and a milestone I’m deeply grateful for.
It was humbling as a college instructor to go back to school again and learn from highly qualified teachers, who inspired me to continue to pass the torch.
Physical copy is in the mail this week and I cannot wait to put it on my wall 🥳

01/14/2026

Doctor’s orders 👩‍⚕️ ☺️

01/07/2026

Things you don’t learn from a textbook 🧠🪡
Yes, everyone here gave informed consent to having this photo posted ;)

01/04/2026

Most people see the Grand Canyon from the edge.

We chased it from sunrise to sunset and from the rim down to the river: by foot, by bike, and by paddle and finding the quiet spaces in between.

Long days. Priceless silence. The bottom is way further down than you think.

This place still knows how to humble you.

01/01/2026

Arizona continues to absolutely blow our minds.
Taking our onto the Colorado River just outside Grand Canyon National Park today was pure magic with calm water, towering canyon walls, and the kind of silence that resets your nervous system.

Hands down one of the best gear decisions we’ve ever made. Lightweight, bombproof, and built for real adventure: these rafts let us say yes to water days we’d otherwise walk right past. Plus we had the whole river to ourselves, beating the crowds of hundreds up on the canyon rim.

Tomorrow we trade paddles for boots and explore the canyon on foot. Still can’t believe this place is real.

12/26/2025

Pow days don’t stop for sore muscles, and neither do we.

Our RMT Tess and Chiropractor Dr. Margherita are working right through the holidays with afternoon, evening, and weekend appointments to keep you moving, strong, and on snow.

Whether you’re:
• Charging hard at Whitewater
• Dealing with tight hips, backs, or shoulders
• Recovering between ski days
• Trying to prevent injuries before they happen

We’ve got your body covered so you can keep skiing, touring, and living Nelson winter fully.

Holiday availability
Afternoons • Evenings • Weekends

Book now before spots fill up. Your body will thank you on the next run.

Rebalancenelson.janeapp.com

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12/08/2025

🌲 Melt the stress. Move without pain. Breathe easier again. 🌲

If your body has been yelling at you lately — tight shoulders, tension headaches, low-back aches, restless sleep — our RMT team at ReBalance has magic hands for that.

Massage isn’t just “a treat.”
It helps your body switch out of fight-or-flight, calms the nervous system, and lets your muscles finally stop guarding and start healing.

Our therapists can help with:
• That neck you keep stretching but it never lets go
• Winter-stress clenching (you know the one)
• Injury flare-ups and old scar tissue getting bossy
• Anxiety sitting in your ribs like it pays rent
• Headaches that show up exactly when you don’t have time 🙃

We use techniques that feel good and actually change how you move — myofascial release, deep tissue (as needed), trigger point therapy, lymphatic drainage, joint mobilization… whatever your body calls for.

You deserve to feel like yourself again.
And we have openings this week with Tess Ahern, RMT. Come see what your body can do when it gets a little support.

12/06/2025

Take a Breath. Slow Down. Re-Charge.

The holiday season can be magical… and also overwhelming. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, winter is the time to restore the Kidney system — the root of your energy, resilience, and ability to handle stress.

Acupuncture and herbal medicine help:
• Calm the nervous system
• Improve sleep and reduce anxious tension
• Support adrenal and Kidney Qi during winter
• Release that “wired but tired” feeling
• Strengthen immunity in the colder months

Just like nature, we’re meant to hibernate a little: turning inward, resting more, and conserving what nourishes us so we can emerge into spring renewed.

Let’s help your system reconnect with that natural rhythm.

Appointments available Mondays and Tuesdays with Dr. Amanda Tubman, D.TCM, R.Ac at ReBALANCE — Nelson’s Wellness Collective.

Book online: rebalancenelson.janeapp.com

Wishing you warmth, calm, and balance this holiday season.

11/22/2025

Neck pain holding you back?
Spinal manipulation therapy has been shown to safely reduce pain, improve neck mobility, and help you get back to your life faster (Diao et al., 2025).
If you’re ready for relief, our chiropractic team is here to help you move freely again.

11/18/2025

Yesterday, I officially completed my Doctoral Degree in Acupuncture with a Chinese Herbal Specialization.

I chose to pursue this doctorate in the United States because it currently offers the highest level of education available in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In British Columbia, we have a Diploma in Doctor of Chinese Medicine, but not yet a formal doctoral program. One day, I hope to help change that.

This milestone feels like the capstone to more than two decades of clinical experiences: years that were also filled with additional studies in osteopathy and countless other modalities. And knowing me… who knows what I’ll study next!

For today, though, I’m simply elated. Grateful.
Reaching the highest educational standard in my field is something I dreamed of many years ago, and I’m honored to finally stand here, as Dr.Monica 😄

Onward and upward.
Here’s to lifelong learning, meaningful work, and the patients who inspire me every single day.

11/14/2025

Music & Medicine ~ A Shared Origin

In ancient China, healing wasn’t just about herbs and needles… it was also about harmony.
One of the earliest ideas in our medicine is that music has the power to balance the soul, to soothe what words cannot reach, to mend what touch cannot fix.

I love this reminder that the Chinese character for medicine traces its roots back to the character for music.
Healing was never meant to be only physical: it was always meant to be artful, rhythmic, and deeply human.

Whether we use herbs, acupuncture, movement, breath, or sound, healing is the act of bringing the body back into harmony.
Medicine is anything that restores resonance.

May we all remember to invite more music, more stillness, and more beauty into our healing journeys.

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Nelson, BC

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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http://www.acunelson.com/

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